About Me

Since the 1990s I have been very involved with fighting the military "don't ask don't tell" policy for gays in the military, and with First Amendment issues. Best contact is 571-334-6107 (legitimate calls; messages can be left; if not picked up retry; I don't answer when driving) Three other url's: doaskdotell.com, billboushka.com johnwboushka.com Links to my URLs are provided for legitimate content and user navigation purposes only.
My legal name is "John William Boushka" or "John W. Boushka"; my parents gave me the nickname of "Bill" based on my middle name, and this is how I am generally greeted. This is also the name for my book authorship. On the Web, you can find me as both "Bill Boushka" and "John W. Boushka"; this has been the case since the late 1990s. Sometimes I can be located as "John Boushka" without the "W." That's the identity my parents dealt me in 1943!

Thursday, May 24, 2018

A few tips if you do it with Bluehost or a similar Wordpress provider.

You use the same IP address (as the hostname) for every database (if you have a "dedicated hosting" of a shared "bluebox".

You should enable SHH first (under security) and supply your main user ID and bh password and Port 22 to set up the FTP credentials.

The you add the databases. The whitelist given by Codeguard may not be sufficient. Bluehost will probably have to add 3-4 more hardcoded IP's through Remote SQL to make this work.

You should add a new user to each database in MYSQL with a separate password for each. Bluehost may have to add one more master user on your principal account (if the other db's are addons).

During the backup, CodeGuard will tell you that the provisioning can take up to 4 hours. Mine took about 10 minutes for the first backup, and then the other three (which are larger) each took around 5 minutes.

Bluehost identifies database names to blogs deep within the File Manager, under PHP code under public-html, specific to each addon. This is rather analogous to the way a mainframe (COBOL) module might be written to access a specific DB2 table (like in a financial or health care company) through a separate CICS transaction, in the old fashioned work world.

Monday, May 21, 2018

The Supreme Court probably encouraged some worker lowballing
today, as it ruled 5-4 that workers who have to sign arbitration agreements
cannot use federal labor law to bring class action suits. New York Mag has a typical summary story here.

The case was Epic Systems Corp. v. Lewis.

The general result is to favor individual workers who are
willing to work for less, probably often singles, and to discourage organizing.This seems to be a ruling for the “individualistic
workplace”.

Monday, May 14, 2018

Recently I have learned that the “free” Site Backup Pro from
my Bluehost Wordpress sites is gradually being deprecated (I found out after I noticed
the April monthly did not run); support suggests CodeGuard, which would provide
a “time machine” backup for each website blog.

Codeguard's directions for BH (India) appear to be here. Here's a more detailed video.

It appears that there is a choice between using the Plugin
and using an FTP mechanism (presuming you have a paid hosting service).

Here’s another link, on the seven best WP backup products, of
varying prices (from free to moderate, although most charge a price for each blog).Of these, the most promising looks like Vault,
which is associated with Jetpack.

I believe I tried to sign up for it in November 2016 and it
never implemented, and in fact one time I got an internal server error. I’ll grant that maybe I did something wrong. When I did get the error, I had to use the
daily Site Backup Pro (fortunately it was up to date for that day) to get the
blog back up (BH support had to do this).

Tuesday, May 08, 2018

Today, Microsoft updated my HP Envy (2014, new solid state
drive in 2016) Windows 10 to version 1803 with a feature update.But it left my ASUS laptop at 1709 with a
much smaller update.Maybe it offers
only one feature update at a time.

The update spun “restarting” for almost 10 minutes, and the
computer restarted one extra time during the registry update part, which lay a
long time at 84% and 90%.It also spun a
while when I logged on for the first time. The whole process took about 30 minutes.

Wednesday, April 18, 2018

Here are some tips on what do if Windows gets stuck doing a
scheduled 2nd Tuesday update, either starting the update, or doing
the registry cycle (which once in a while can require two or three restarts to
complete).

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I had some trouble this week (Windows 10 Creators) with the
left click on my HP stalling or jumping functions.I got a brief update once on Tuesday
night.Today I bought a new keyboard and
mouse and everything seems OK. Oddly, the restart took longer after I put in
the new stuff, like it had to fix the registry again.

Friday, April 13, 2018

This may seem like an odd posting for an “IT workplace”
blog, but big league sports is a workplace (remember the film “Moneyball”) and
Major League Baseball has gotten criticism for not attracting more black players
and employees, as in this US Today story by Bob Nightengale.

The story of Jackie Robinson was well told in the film “42”.In the early 1950s, in my own boyhood trips
to Ohio, I was used to Cleveland Indians players like Larry Doby or Luke
Easter, or the White Sox Minnie Minoso.

Baseball may become more attractive to minorities as football comes under a cloud because of concussion injuries. Remember Bo Jackson, who played both pro football and baseball (for the Royals)?

The Nationals released manager Dusty Baker after 2017 when
he failed to get past the first round of the playoffs two years in a row, after
winning two divisions.

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